A菜
A cài
Pinyin

Definition

A菜
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A cài
  1. (Tw) lettuce (from Taiwanese 萵仔菜, Tai-lo pr. [ue-á-tshài] or [e-á-tshài])

Character Decomposition

A
A

Related Words (20)

TA
tā
  1. 1 he or she
A
A
  1. 1 (slang) (Tw) to steal
泡菜
pào cài
  1. 1 pickled cabbage
白菜
bái cài
  1. 1 Chinese cabbage
  2. 2 pak choi
  3. 3 CL:棵[kē], 個|个[gè]
芹菜
qín cài
  1. 1 celery (Apium graveolens)
菜
cài
  1. 1 dish (type of food)
  2. 2 vegetable
  3. 3 cuisine
  4. 4 CL:盤|盘[pán],道[dào]
  5. 5 (coll.) (one's) type
  6. 6 (of one's skills etc) weak
  7. 7 poor
菜刀
cài dāo
  1. 1 vegetable knife
  2. 2 kitchen knife
  3. 3 cleaver
  4. 4 CL:把[bǎ]
菜鸟
cài niǎo
  1. 1 (coll.) sb new to a particular subject
  2. 2 rookie
  3. 3 beginner
  4. 4 newbie
菠菜
bō cài
  1. 1 spinach
  2. 2 CL:棵[kē]
蔬菜
shū cài
  1. 1 vegetables
  2. 2 CL:種|种[zhǒng]
青菜
qīng cài
  1. 1 green vegetables
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage
韭菜
jiǔ cài
  1. 1 garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives
  2. 2 (fig.) retail investors who lose their money to more experienced operators (i.e. they are "harvested" like garlic chives)
饭菜
fàn cài
  1. 1 food
香菜
xiāng cài
  1. 1 coriander
  2. 2 cilantro
  3. 3 Coriandrum sativum
ACG
A C G
  1. 1 acronym for "anime, comics and games"
PA
P A
  1. 1 public area attendant (tasked with cleaning the public areas of a hotel)
  2. 2 marketing assistant
  3. 3 sales assistant
上菜
shàng cài
  1. 1 to serve food
中国菜
Zhōng guó cài
  1. 1 Chinese cuisine
主菜
zhǔ cài
  1. 1 main course
干菜
gān cài
  1. 1 dried vegetable

Idioms (7)

小菜一碟
xiǎo cài yī dié
  1. 1 a small appetizer
  2. 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
捡到篮里就是菜
jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì cài
  1. 1 all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
看人下菜碟儿
kàn rén xià cài dié r5
  1. 1 (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)
  2. 2 not to treat everyone equally favorably
看菜吃饭
kān cài chī fàn
  1. 1 to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances
  2. 2 to live within one's means
看菜吃饭，量体裁衣
kān cài chī fàn , liáng tǐ cái yī
  1. 1 eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure
  2. 2 to act according to actual circumstances
  3. 3 to live within one's means
萝卜白菜，各有所爱
luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài
  1. 1 one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
  2. 2 to each his own
黄花菜都凉了
huáng huā cài dōu liáng le
  1. 1 lit. the dishes are cold (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to arrive late
  3. 3 to take one's sweet time

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